{"id":85139,"date":"2011-03-24T17:13:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T09:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/best-buy-agrees-to-sell-lightsquared-services\/"},"modified":"2011-03-24T17:13:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T09:13:20","slug":"best-buy-agrees-to-sell-lightsquared-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/best-buy-agrees-to-sell-lightsquared-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Buy Agrees to Sell LightSquared Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n[03-24-11] Satellite-LTE network operator <strong>LightSquared <\/strong>has signed a contract with national electronics retailer <strong>Best Buy <\/strong>to resell its service, LightSquared announced March 23.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; LightSquared CEO and Chairman Sanjiv Ahuja said the deal represents &#8221; the biggest contract yet&#8221; for LightSquared and that both companies would begin trials in the first quarter of next year. Ahuja did not disclose which specific services Best Buy would sell.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; LightSquared, which is planning to build a terrestrial LTE network with coverage complemented by the satellite service, has been trying to calm fears about analysts\u2019 projections that <strong>AT&amp;T\u2019s <\/strong>planned buyout of <strong>T-Mobile USA <\/strong>would hurt LightSquared\u2019s prospects by reducing the number of potential resellers for its wholesale service. Analysts also claimed that LightSquared could become an acquisition target for cellular carrier <strong>Sprint Nextel<\/strong>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Best Buy deal follows a roaming agreement that LightSquared signed with Leap Wireless International on March 22 to incorporate high-speed coverage and additional capacity provided by Leap\u2019s Cricket business. Cricket, however, said it is still planning to deploy more high-speed LTE coverage across its own network in the next few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[03-24-11] Satellite-LTE network operator LightSquared has signed a contract with national electronics retailer Best Buy to resell its service, LightSquared announced March 23. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; LightSquared CEO and Chairman Sanjiv Ahuja said the deal represents &#8221; the biggest contract yet&#8221; for LightSquared and that both companies would begin trials in the first quarter of next year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}